In a St. Louis speech, former president Herbert Hoover criticizes New Deal policies

Title card: "Hoover Hits at 'Playboys' of New Deal" / audience at tables at the John Marshall Republican Club applauds as former US President Herbert Hoover is introduced / Hoover stands at podium, waves for applause to stop / SOT Hoover: As the New Deal always demands alternative plans, I offer four: Stop these wasteful Federal public works projects; Decentralize the administration of all other forms of relief; Do it now. It would go far to assure a clean election; We have a further obligation beyond relief to this ten million unemployed; True relief must come from honest productive jobs, not from public funds; these jobs would return confidence in future if honest American liberties were restored; "These people on relief have suffered enough from having playboys take America apart to see how the wheels go 'round"